Building on my podcast last week with Jarod Roll, his book discusses briefly a 1940 film called Men and Dust. This is a leftist film about the life of the lead and zinc miners in the Tri-State area of OK/MO/KS. It's really amazing. Here's an...
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For today's podcast, I interview Jarod Roll of the University of Mississippi about his new book Poor Man's Fortune: White Working Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950. This might.
This is the grave of Marcus Daly. Born in 1841 in County Cavan, Ireland, Daly was the youngest of 11 children in a poor farming family. He came to the.
On May 29, 1935, a strike by mineworkers in Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) to protest taxes levied on them by British colonial administrators was met with murderous violence, with about 28 workers killed or injured. This was an early labor protest that failed, but also...
On October 12, 1898, a racialized battle over strikebreaking broke out in the southern Illinois coal mining town of Virden, Illinois. The so-called Battle of Virden demonstrates the ways that.
Dust blowing off the top of copper mine tailing piles. Witold Skrypczak/Lonely Planet Images/Getty This is an excellent story about a serious environmental problem and the ridiculous lack of meaningful.
On August 12, 1946, South African mineworkers went on strike, a critical moment in the struggle against racism and which is one of the major early moments that challenged the apartheid state. As most of you probably know, mining has always been a big part...
I think we all agree that the move toward renewable energy is not just a policy imperative, but a moral one necessary to save the planet. That said, we also.
On April 18, 1912, coal miners along Paint Creek and Cabin Creek in West Virginia went on strike to protest the terrible conditions of their lives. This event served as.
On November 21, 1927, Colorado state police massacred six striking coal miners at the Columbine Mine in Serene, in what was just one of so many instances in American history of government using police forces as the private strikebreaking army of employers. Colorado miners, both...
On April 21, 1545, a man named Juan de Villarroel filed the first mining claim at Potosí, in what is now Bolivia. The silver mine in the mountain known as.
On January 23, 1890, the United Mine Workers of America formed. One of the most important labor unions in American history, examining the foundation of the UMWA is a window.